Reel-support



. 1 UNITED STAT S PATENT? 0mm. I

GEORGE F. HALL, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE \N6N'AN:

' VTUM WORSTED COMPANY, or ASSAOHUS TT r ,REgEL-S'UPPO RT SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 381,128, dated April '17, 1888. Application filed October 1i, 1887. Sei-ia1No.252,7s3. (No model.)

To '(LZZ whom'it may concern: I Beit known that I, GEORGE F. HALL, acitivzen of the United States, and a resident of Boston, in the county of Sufiolk and State. of

.'5 Massachusetts, have invented newand useful Improvements in Reel-Supports, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in reel-supports; and it has for its object to'provide a lightand portable support and frame for reels containing worsted yarn or similar spun materials. Heretofore such materials have generallybeen sold in skeins, which rebe used forv knitting, embroidery, or similar purposes. With my' invention I propose to furnish to the trade worsted wound upon a flat reel that is pivoted upon a frame capable of being folded together for transportation, and thus to occupy but very littlespace; and

* when expanded it will serve as a proper support for the reel, enabling the yarnto be drawn directly from it as it is being used for knitting, embroidery, orfsimilar purposes, without the need of winding .it in the form of a ball, as is now commonly done when the yarn is bought in the form of skeins. r

The invention is carried out as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 represents a perspective View of the device, showing the frame or support as expanded when used as astand for the reel; and Fig.2 represents a plan viewof the device, shown as folded together fortransportationor when suspended from above when in use.

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the different parts of the drawings. 7

, a is the flat reel, which may be made of wood, pasteboard, or other suitable material, and upon said reel'iswound the worsted or yarn b, as shown in Fig. 1. This reel is suspended from or pivoted to the improved reel-support,

which is constructed as follows: It is composed of a pair of bail-shaped wires, cand d, the former having loops or eyes 0 c in its upper end, and the latter having inwardly-bent ends or pivots dd, adapted to passlooselythrough the eyes 0 c andto enter perforations in the quire unwinding before the worsted, 8m, can

respectively, with loops oreyes 0', d", which 1: j

are suitably connected by means of a cord, wire, orsuitable connecting device, e, wh ch serves to prevent the undue spreading-ofthe 6c bails c 11, when the latter are'expanded for use as a reel-support, as shown in Fig. 1, in which position said support may be placed on a table or other piece of furniture for the operator to draw the yarn from the reel as it-is being 6 needed during the progress of the work. By

means of said eyes c"d the device may be sus- I pended from any desired or convenient'object, in the room in the position shown in Fig.2, if

the operator should so prefer. Fig.2 likewise represents the manner of folding the reel-sup- I port together when being transported, or packed away when not required for immediate use. It so desired, both .bails may be provided in: theirupper ends with eyes like the onesshown atc c in Figs. 1 and 2, and said eyes pivoted j v to the sides of the flat reel a by means'of. pins or nails passing through said eyes and driven into the side edges of the Saidflat reel; but the 8b arrangement as shown in thedrawings ispreferable. When the device is used suspended from above only, without using it as' a stand, one of the bails may be dispensed with; but I- V prefer to make the device with a pair of bails,'c 8 5 d, pivoted'togeth'er and to the fiat reel, as shown in the drawings, as by such'arrangementit can be used as a support to be placed on a ta-f ble, 8m, as shown in Fig. 1, or in a suspended position, as shown in Fi 2. v 9 What I wish to secure by Letters Patent and claim is I Y 1. Thebail-wi'res c d, pivoted togetherand having loops or eyes 0' d, incombination with the stay-e, connecting said loops, andthe flat 9-5 reel b, pivoted to the bail-wires c d.a t. their junction, substantiallyin. almanner and for" the purpose set forth; I

2 The bail-wires .c d, pivoted, together by means of their-respective eyes 0 c and inward-J Iioo ly-projecting pivots d d, in combination with the flat reel b, having recesses in its side-edges side edges of the reel (1, as shown in the-draw.- 4 'ings, said bent ends 01 d serving as fulcra onfor the reception of the pivots d d, substanportion of the folding supports 0 d, as and for tially as and for the purpose set forth. the purpose set forth.

3. The improved reel holding and support- In testimony whereof I have signed my name ing device, as described, consisting of the bent to this specificatiomin the presence of two sub- 15 5 wire 0, having eyes 0 din its upper ends and scribing Witnesses, on this 15th day of Octoloop or eye 0 in its lower end, and the bent her, A. D. 1887. wire d, having inwardly-bent pivots d din its upper end, adapted to pass through the eyes GEORGE HALL 0'0 and into the side edges of the flat reel a, 10 combined with the stay-cord or equivalent device e, and theloops or eyes 0" d on the lower \Vitnesses:

ALBAN ANDREN, ALICE M. SNOW. 

